We saw a great show yesterday. I have to say "show" because a friend of mine argues (snobbishly) that musicals are not "real" theater.
Well, this musical, "Everyday Rapture," was about Sherie, a half-Mennonite (isn't that an oxymoron?), who escapes Kentucky first, and then Kansas to finally make it to New York where she hopes to become a famous actress, but then she gets pregnant and has to go back home before she rediscovers gumption and returns to NY to finally get an itty bitty part in a play and then...well, you know the rest of the story because it's autobiographical. Hmmm, maybe that doesn't sound terribly interesting, but it was, it was. Think Sarah Silverman meets Doris Day.
Perhaps the best part of the show was a riff on youtube fame, in which a fabulous 15 year old actor plays a teen imitating Sherie in a youtube video. Hilarious, even if it wasn't real theater.
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Great post! (Was that really what the play was about?)
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